Thoughts for the day

[davywavy]

If suicide isn't a selfish act, how come people who jump under trains tend to do it during rush hour when it'll screw up the day for thousands of other people?

Have you ever noticed how much John Willams' Superman theme owes to Aaron Copelands' Fanfare for the Common Man?

If you play Lucretia, My Reflection by the Sisters of Mercy at 1.4x speed, it stops being a morbid dirge and becomes quite a fun dance track. However, if you play This Corrosion by the same band at the same speed multiple, it sounds like Pinky & Perky singing it.

Aneurin Bevan, when he founded the NHS in 1946, predicted that as time went by the NHS would make the populace of the UK healthier and so the cost of running the service would decrease. More than 50 years later, we're still waiting.

Comments

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[kathminchin.livejournal.com]

What I object to is paying into a State Pension fund when it's blatantly clear that by the time we get to retire there won't be anything to claim.

I hate to burst your bubble here but that is not what you are doing.

The money you are currently paying is not</> being saved for your pension. If it was being invested for you it wouldn't vanish when you got to retirement - well it might, but not for the same reason. It is being used to pay for the current pensioners. When you get to retirement then the working population then will be paying for yours.

This is why the State Pension Scheme does not work. Especially considering we have an aging population and a decreasing birth rate.

Sorry, I used to work in Pensions. That was one of the Big Myths that people still buy into.

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[kathminchin.livejournal.com]

and my formatting went up the spout there.

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[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Exactly my point. By the time I get to retire, there won't be a state pension for people to pay into for my upkeep.

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[kathminchin.livejournal.com]

glad to see you're in the real world then Jon

Cos at least one of my work colleagues was surprised when I pointed this out to them...